The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-25

Randall and Ezra B Taylor ex-Secretary Lin
coin. and Mayor Hewitt, of New York. Invi-
tations will also be semitic all surviving members
of the Garfield Cabinet and all living members
of his family
EX-SENATOR WALLACE. of Pennsylvania, is
growing rapidly rich. He has retired temper
arily from active politics but intends to become
if possible political power in his State after
he has made all the money he wants HIS
wealth is obtained from railroads and coal
mines. His profits in the last few months are
said to have been enormous.
To admiring correspondent at New Lon
don, John Greenleaf Whittier recently wrote
that maud Muller" was not composed as a
story of his own life as has sometimes been in
tlmated But Maud" had real prototype In a
country girl of whom he obtained drink while
riding by, and who modestly raked the hay up
about her bare ankles while he was drinking the
water
Dr. BEMAN, a noted Presbyterian divine of
Troy, once said that of the first compliments
he had ever secured was from country woman
who had walked ten miles to hear him preach in
of the villages of northern New York. She
remarked to one of the elders after the sermon:
And is this the great DR.. Beman that / have
heard so much about Why, / can see nothing
great in him, for understood every word he
said"
SUNSET Cox made $50, 600 by the sale of his
Washington home just before he left for Tur-
key. He sold for $50 900 cash what he bought
for $50 900 on time. He is now building an
other house, which he will be ready to sell at a
similar advance. President Cleveland has made
$40, 00U in the increase of the value of the land
upon which his country home is located, and
Secretary Whitney, am told, cleared 500, 600 in
his sale of ''Grasslands"
THERE has been complete reconciliation be-
tween the Empress Eugene and Prince Victor
Napolean. The Empress visited Brussels the
other day and her young relation met her at the
station and dined and breakfasted with her at
the Hotel Bellevue. Prince Victor is to visit
the Empress at Amsterdam this week and he
will come to England to be present at the rein
terment of the collins of the late Emperor Ma
poleon and his son. the unfortunate Prince I'M
perial, at Marlborough.
EDWARD ATKINSON has been examining the
records in ready-made clothing establishments
to discover whether the white man in the United
States is deteriorating in size and weight The
general res lt is that the average height New
Englanders is found to be feet 81 inches. and
of Southerners feet 10 inches. The average
weight of Americans is between 155 and l6O
pounds. Mr.. Atkinson also discovered that the
average height and weight of men in this coun-
try have increased perceptibly since the war.
He is convinced that Americans are increasing
rather than decreasing in size
A PROSE version of Spencer's 'Faerie Queene"
edited by J. E. Rabbeth, has been brought out
in England. with this dedication: "This version
of great poem which presents an ideal of hui
man life under the similitude of knightly hero
ism. devoted to the pursuit of high ideal of
duty, is affectionately inscribed to the memory
of the late Samuel Rabbeth. NJ B., III. r. C. s.,
by his father" Every remembers the he
roic action of the noble young doctor who
sucked the poison from the throat Of the little
one who was suffering from diphtheria, and who
himself succumbed to the terrible disease. and
will recognize the special appropriateness of the
touching inscription.
FEW weeks ago the newspapers published a
story of the destitute circumstances of a Nor
wegian woman named Maria Olson, who, with
her crazy daughter. had been found by the agent
of the Associated Charities in miserable howell
in South Water street, in Milwaukee, utterly
without the necessaries of life. The authorities
proposed to send them back to Norway alien
paupers. The affecting recital was read by An
drew Olson an old lake sailor. who, fourteen
years ago. left wife and child at Farsund,
Norway. Olson interested. and went to
see the unfortunate women. whom, to his as
constituent he found to be his wife and daughter.
There was romantic renewing of old ties. and
the sailor, who had saved up considerable money,
at once secured comfortable lodgings, where the
reunited family are now living in happiness